After hearing that SRKWs had been sighted this morning in Puget Sound near Vashon Island, I checked through the Port Townsend automated detections. Although no live listeners caught the many calls between about 9pm and midnight, the were relatively loud compared to past detections, suggesting that some of the pod members were passing through Admiralty Inlet on the Port Townsend side.

This was a good example of how the southern residents can sneak up on the proposed Snohomish County tidal power site. The hydrophone observation log say that Jeanne heard J and K pod calls as late as 19:16 and 19:27 on 1/30/11 at Orcasound and Lime Kiln, respectively. The latest Orca Network report mentioned others hearing them slightly later and Sandy Buckley getting hints they were headed north, though Jeanne had heard they were heading south in Active Pass earlier that day (at 14:45). This implies they made it from Active to being audible at Orcasound (at 17:14) in about 2.5 hours. That’s about 25km in 2.5hrs, or an average speed of 10 km/hr = 5.4 knots.

I hear S1, 2, 4, and a handful of S16s, so suspect we’ll get photo ID confirmation today that the visiting pods are Js and maybe a few Ks. I didn’t notice any whistles or clicks. Feel free to listen to the following mp3s and add your sound classifications in the comments.

55 Detections

2011-02-01 21:40:16 node=pt dB=97 trigger=PWR	2011-02-01 21:40:33 node=pt dB=97 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 21:40:58 node=pt dB=99 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 21:41:30 node=pt dB=100 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 21:41:59 node=pt dB=97 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 21:43:58 node=pt dB=98 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 21:44:19 node=pt dB=97 trigger=PWR	2011-02-01 21:50:21 node=pt dB=99 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 21:50:39 node=pt dB=99 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 21:50:49 node=pt dB=96 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 21:51:02 node=pt dB=100 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:42:12 node=pt dB=100 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:42:35 node=pt dB=105 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:42:45 node=pt dB=95 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:43:06 node=pt dB=100 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:43:30 node=pt dB=97 trigger=PWR
2011-02-01 22:44:00 node=pt dB=102 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:44:10 node=pt dB=100 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:44:29 node=pt dB=100 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:45:00 node=pt dB=96 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:45:29 node=pt dB=99 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:45:39 node=pt dB=98 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:46:06 node=pt dB=99 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:46:16 node=pt dB=98 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:46:57 node=pt dB=97 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:48:13 node=pt dB=98 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:49:10 node=pt dB=96 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:50:22 node=pt dB=95 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:52:22 node=pt dB=96 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:53:46 node=pt dB=104 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:53:56 node=pt dB=95 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:54:20 node=pt dB=96 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:54:52 node=pt dB=97 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:55:52 node=pt dB=100 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:56:06 node=pt dB=104 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:56:16 node=pt dB=94 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:58:41 node=pt dB=100 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 22:59:35 node=pt dB=94 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 22:59:49 node=pt dB=95 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 23:00:31 node=pt dB=97 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 23:00:52 node=pt dB=95 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 23:01:02 node=pt dB=93 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 23:01:12 node=pt dB=93 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 23:15:32 node=pt dB=95 trigger=PWR
2011-02-01 23:17:24 node=pt dB=95 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 23:17:34 node=pt dB=95 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 23:17:55 node=pt dB=96 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 23:18:06 node=pt dB=92 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 23:22:02 node=pt dB=101 trigger=PWR	2011-02-01 23:24:44 node=pt dB=96 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 23:24:54 node=pt dB=91 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 23:25:04 node=pt dB=97 trigger=PKT
2011-02-01 23:25:38 node=pt dB=96 trigger=PKT	2011-02-01 23:28:45 node=pt dB=95 trigger=PWR
2011-02-01 23:28:58 node=pt dB=93 trigger=PKT